A good friend of mine bought a new (to him) roadster last year to put his killer banger in. This car has run at the salt for over 10 years and has gone over 200. This year the SCTA decided that they should take a closer look at the cage, and it ended up that my friend never got a chance to run as they found the cage not constructed to specs. This actually from a safety stand point was the right thing to do, as the cage was completely out of SCTA specifications!)Only the two tubes that make up the over head part of the cage were the required 1-5/x 1/8 wall tubing all of the rest of the cage was under sized in diameter and also wall thickness. Some of it was 4130 and some mild steel. My friend contacted me to see if I would be interested in updating the cage to meet the latest SCTA specs. As my son, Duke, is not working right now I pulled him on the project and we agreed to do a new and to spec cage. Duke is doing all of the actual fabrication and welding and after looking at the pics you can see why! I have attached some pics of the original cage and a couple of what Duke has completed up to now.
Rex